Swedish water technology SME combining industrial water treatment with smart city flood resilience and urban drainage data platforms.
Swedish Hydro Solutions AB is a Swedish SME focused on water management — from industrial water treatment compliance to urban flood resilience infrastructure. In their early work they developed sustainable water treatment systems to help European industry meet environmental regulations. They later moved into smart city water management, contributing to sensor-based urban drainage monitoring, sewer sociology analysis, and open data platforms for flood resilience. Their value lies in bridging water engineering with digital tools and city-scale infrastructure thinking.
CleanHydro (2016-2017) was a self-coordinated SME Instrument Phase 1 feasibility study on sustainable water treatment for European industry targeting environmental regulatory compliance.
SCOREwater (2019-2023) explicitly covers flooding resilience, water-safe construction, and urban drainage as core project keywords.
SCOREwater keywords include open platform and data market, indicating work on data infrastructure for city-scale water observatories.
SCOREwater keywords include organisational science and sewer sociology — an unusual combination suggesting attention to governance and behavioural factors in water system management.
Their first H2020 project (2016-2017) focused on industrial water treatment as a commercial SME product — regulatory compliance and environmental performance for industry clients. By 2019 they had pivoted toward smart city infrastructure, joining a large Innovation Action on resilient urban water management with a much broader scope involving sensors, data markets, and urban drainage. The shift is from industrial B2B water technology toward public-sector urban infrastructure and digital water governance — a significant expansion in both scale and application domain.
They are moving from product-focused industrial water treatment toward urban-scale digital water infrastructure, suggesting future collaboration interest in smart cities, climate adaptation, and data-driven public water management.
They have both led (CleanHydro as SME Instrument coordinator) and joined as a partner (SCOREwater as participant in a multi-partner Innovation Action). The 15 partners across 4 countries in just two projects suggests they engage in moderately sized European consortia rather than small bilateral arrangements. As a small SME they likely function as a specialist technology contributor rather than a project management hub.
Swedish Hydro Solutions has built a network of 15 unique consortium partners across 4 countries through only two projects, with most connections stemming from the multi-partner SCOREwater Innovation Action. Their network is European but limited in geographic spread, with no evidence of non-EU collaboration.
Swedish Hydro Solutions sits at an unusual intersection of water engineering, urban infrastructure, and digital data platforms — a combination that is rare among small SMEs. Their exposure to both industrial water treatment compliance and city-scale flood resilience gives them cross-sector credibility that most water technology companies lack. The sewer sociology and organisational science thread in SCOREwater also signals they can contribute to the human and governance side of water projects, not only the technical.
